Black Friday sales draw crowds and violence

The New York Post reported early Friday that the Big Apple’s “real feeding frenzy” this Thanksgiving wasn’t at the dinner table, but at stores, with the line for the Times Square Toys ‘R’ Us wrapping around the block. Elsewhere, police erected metal barricades to regulate crowds at Brooklyn’s Atlantic Terminal Mall.

Elsewhere, a Houston Chronicle photo showed shoppers in an orderly line outside the Palais Royal in the Meyerland Plaza shopping center. The store entertained consumers with a Santa Claus and free coffee and hot chocolate, according to the Chronicle.

Philly.com’s Black Friday story profiled “uber shoppers” that began their retail adventure Thursday evening, and were still shopping 10 hours later.